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In memory disorder: Amnesia affecting specific memories
Amnesia that affects specific memories can involve the failure to recall particular past events or events falling within a particular period of the patient’s life. This is essentially retrograde amnesia, but it does not appear to depend upon an actual brain…
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In memory disorder: Historical perspectives
…these instances of amnesia as hysterical, explaining them in terms of dissociation: a selective loss of access to specific memory data that seem to hold some degree of emotional significance. In his experience, reconnection of dissociated memories could as a rule be brought about by suggestion while the individual was…
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